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Alec Baldwin has denounced other Hollywood stars who've condemned director Woody Allen over sexual abuse claims. The actor, who has worked with Allen on films including To Rome With Love, made his argument in a series of tweets Tuesday in which he called the ongoing controversy "unfair and sad." In his first tweet, 59-year-old Baldwin noted that investigations in both New York and Connecticut have cleared Allen of wrongdoing.

"No charges were filed," he wrote. "The renunciation of him and his work, no doubt, has some purpose. But it’s unfair and sad to me. I worked w WA 3 times and it was one of the privileges of my career." Allen's adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, has maintained since 1992 that her father molested her as a 7-year-old. Allen has consistently denied that claim. Farrow, now 32, will address her accusations for the first time on television on CBS this week. Previews of her interview with Gayle King air Wednesday, and the full interview airs Thursday morning. "I am credible and I am telling the truth and I think it's important that people realize that one victim, one accuser, matters," she is quoted as saying in a preview. (Read more Woody Allen stories.)

“No charges were filed.” Seriously Alec Baldwin? You haven’t figured out by now by living and working in Hollyweird that Power and Money Rule? Some people look at Woody and see a god. I see a man WHO MARRIED HIS DAUGHTER. You are disgusting to take up for a child molester.

StopPayingUnionDues

Jan 17, 2018 5:57 PM CST

Roman Polansky will be his character witness.

Koppers

Jan 17, 2018 10:14 AM CST

I firmly believe that if Woody Allen is guilty he should have been punished. However, he is innocent until proven guilty, and in that regard he has never be charged, let alone found guilty. If you put all the hysteria and Hollywood luvvies jumping on a bandwagon aside and read the words of Moses Farrow, Mia Farrow comes across as a violent controlling mother. Furthermore,....and it is worth reading the whole article..... https://ronanfarrowletter.wordpress.com/ Before Linda Fairstein became a best selling author, she was director of the first sex crimes unit in the United States, appointed in 1976 by New York City District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau. Until 2002 she oversaw the investigation of thousands of allegations of child and sexual abuse, and she has an informed opinion on this one. “Once there was the suggestion that Woody Allen was involved with Soon-Yi, then there’s every reason for Mia Farrow to be doing something from angry to insane, and there’s no better weapon than your children. So take the weakest link—the youngest, the girl—and whatever you want to say that would make the public believe you are dealing with a monster, is to make this claim. “When the story came out that Mia had videotaped Dylan”—in eleven segments shot at different times in different places, one nude in a bathtub, others outside showing her topless—“it sounded to me like one of the craziest things I’d ever heard. On every level, it’s the last thing you would do. First of all, videotaping her naked while asking again and again about what happened. Why are you exposing your child to these videos that someday will possibly be in the hands of the public or in the courtroom? That fact alone set off every alarm.” In regard to Farrow’s telling Woody, “You took my child, I’m going to take yours,” Fairstein adds, “That sounds so real to me. That’s the kind of venom I’m used to seeing in this kind of case: You’ve ruined my life, I’m going to hit you where it hurts most. The idea of saying to a public figure just about the worst thing you could have as a newspaper headline about them is totally in keeping with how these cases are used in matrimonial matters.” Fairstein cites studies that have been done over the past twenty years on “How suggestible children are. Dylan’s been told a story, and there’s only one person left to please. Daddy’s already been thrown out of the picture. How frightening. Like any kid, you’re wanting to be with, if not two parents, the one parent. So I don’t imagine from that point on she was free to tell any other story. If you believe as I do that the allegation is false, then it is the fault of the woman who created the allegation who has mortally wounded this child. “I was in the district attorney’s office thirty years, and this was my specialty for twenty-eight of them, so there were thousands of abuse cases in which I had a direct or supervisory role. I have no reason to believe this event happened.”